Code: Version 2.0 (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Code There's a belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated - that is, its very essence is immune from the government's control. This book presents an argument that this belief is wrong. It shows that the nature of cyberspace is unregulable as cyberspace has no nature. It only has code - the software and hardware that makes cyberspace what it is.
Full description- Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
- Published: 05 December 2006
- Format: Paperback 352 pages
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- Categories: Civil Rights & Citizenship | IT & Communications Law | Impact Of Science & Technology On Society | Ethical & Social Aspects Of Computing | Internet Guides & Online Services
- ISBN 13: 9780465039142 ISBN 10: 0465039146
- Sales rank: 97,540
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"Now available for the first time in the UK, this is the "alarming and impassioned" book on how the Internet is redefining constitutional law. This updated edition is the first popular book revised online by its readers" - "New York Times". There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated - that is, its very essence is immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control. "Code", first published in 2000, argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no "nature". It only has code - the software and hardware that makes cyberspace what it is. That code can create a place of freedom - as the original architecture of the Net did - or a place of oppressive control. Under the influence of commerce, cyberspace is becoming a highly regulable space, where behaviour is much more tightly controlled than in real space. But that's not inevitable either. We can - we must - choose what kind of cyberspace we want and what freedoms we will guarantee. These choices are all about architecture: about what kind of code will govern cyberspace, and who will control it. In this realm, code is the most significant for of law, and it is up to lawyers, policymakers, and especially citizens to decide what values that code embodies. Since its original publication, this seminal book has earned the status of a minor classic. This second edition, or Version 2.0, has been prepared through the author's wiki, a web site that allows readers to edit the text, making this the first reader-edited revision of a popular book.
